[PD] [; pd init(

Ken Restivo ken at restivo.org
Wed Sep 19 08:40:35 CEST 2007


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On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 02:15:02PM -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Miller Puckette wrote:
> 
> >"init" is one of many messages that Pd and its gui send back and forth, 
> >which
> >aren't intended to have any user-level functionality... of course, some
> >of those messages like "connect" have proved useful at the user level; but
> >none of them are guaranteed to do anything useful or even to be safe.  The
> >only one that's "supported" is "dsp" for turning audio computation on and 
> >off.
> 
> It's not "supported", not guaranteed and not intended to be used, yet if 
> you'd remove support for that, people would scream like crazy. It's a bit 
> like illegal immigrants: the state won't give them an official status and 
> the state can't function without them.
> 

Which reminds me. Somewhere in my PD research, I stumbled across a list of "undocumented" PD commands. Things which would perform some useful actions on the engine.

Google hasn't helped me find it. I'd like to have this around in case it becomes useful. Any idea where it might be?

- -ken
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